{
  "id": 14256756,
  "title": "AI Researchers Are Smoking Cigarettes to Prove AI Will Cure Cancer, Says Palantir Exec",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/13/ai-researchers-are-smoking-cigarettes-to-prove-ai-will-cure-cancer",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-13T17:37:46.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Decrypt",
    "slug": "decrypt",
    "url": "https://decrypt.co/380857/ai-researchers-smoking-cigarettes-prove-ai-cure-cancer"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar says many AI researchers have taken up smoking to signal their faith in AI.",
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    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Fortune",
        "title": "Palantir’s CTO claims AI researchers are smoking to prove they believe AI will cure cancer, and he says it’s a sign of tech-fueled ‘mass psychosis’",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/13/palantirs-cto-claims-ai-researchers-are-smoking-to-prove-they-believe",
        "published": "2026-10-13T18:51:44.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}